Word: reeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee's resolution was something of a pardon as well as an endorsement. Ever since he "chawed" his cigars and hurled his epithets at the policies of Woodrow Wilson, Senator Reed has been regarded by Missouri Democrats as a renegade...
...signify that he accepted his reinstatement and endorsement with fit humility, Senator Reed mounted the platform at a fair in Sedalia, Mo., and, with never a mention of his own ambitions, intoned the political creed of a "rank-and-file" Democrat. The crowd, of course, caught Reed fever and again silver-tipped Senator Reed was acclaimed Missouri's candidate, promised a solid delegation...
When he writes for the American Mercury (and sometimes in his Senate fulminations), Senator Reed permits himself to perform feats of epigrammatic agility. "Give me the radius of a man's intelligence," he has written, "and I will describe the circumference of his tolerance." And, "The nobility of the mighty dead cannot be lessened by the puerility of the living." But the fair-day crowd at Sedalia, Mo., would not enjoy epigrams. What Senator Reed gave them last week was a good old-fashioned balloon ascension with oratorical sandbags dropping on Republican malefactors. Sedalia, Mo., pronounced it Senator Reed...
...Significance. Senator Reed is, of course, as Wet as he is fiery. Between his politics and Governor Smith's the chief difference comes on Big Business, to which Governor Smith is geographically nearer. Senator Reed's assault at Sedalia was not merely upon crooked "interests" but upon trusts in general. He did not, however, mention that anathema of the bankers, farm relief. Unless Governor Smith declares himself as a Big Business man, delegates instructed for Senator Reed would, at convention, have only the dwindling barrier of Governor Smith's religion to hurdle, should the Reed candidacy prove...
Comment. These facts considered, it was surprising to see the Smith-smitten New York World, leading Democrat of the East, leap precipitously upon Senator Reed as follows...